Home Routes / Chemin Chez Nous Brings Dana Wylie to the “Northwest Trail” Series

"Subtle and lulling, her voice is the sound you’d hear in a forest haunted by benevolent ghosts."
Performing in Northern BC and Northwest Alberta April 2019  

“Dana Wylie is a bright light from the great west...her singing is brimming with soul and songs and their great arrangements are unique and strong... Her ideas are elegant and classic—but also unbound by genre...I can’t wait to hear her again ”
— Colin Linden

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Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous house concert network is thrilled to present Dana Wylie on the ‘Northwest Trail’ house concert series this April. Wylie is touring the Northern BC and Northwest Alberta region.  The Northwest Trail tour kicks off March 31 in.  Full schedule is below, and at https://homeroutes.ca/homeroutes-artists/dana-wylie/.

Northwest Trail Dates - Dana Wylie
March 31, 2019    Prince George, BC
April 2, 2019        Chetwynd, BC
April 3, 2019        Cotillion, AB
April 4, 2019        Goodfare, AB
April 5, 2019        MacKenzie, BC
April 6, 2019        Prince George, BC
April 7, 2019        Fraser Lake, BC
April 9, 2019        Smithers, BC
April 10, 2019    Prince Rupert, BC
April 11, 2019    Hazelton, BC
April 12, 2019    Burns Lake, BC
April 13, 2019    Vanderhoof, BC
April 14, 2019    Miworth, BC
 
To attend any of these shows, please contact Home Routes/ Chemin Chez Nous HERE or via email attend@homeroutes.ca  or info@homeroutes.ca or call: (204) 480-3380, Toll-free in Canada: 1 (866) 925-6889.  The full Home Routes schedule can be accessed online at homeroutes.ca.  
 
About
“Wylie shows the intuitive grace, smart, lyrical economy, and the ability to find insights in everything or anything that you expect of a mature songwriter.” – Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal

“[Dana Wylie] stands out from the pack with the maturity of her musical vision, which combines elements of folk, pop, and jazz…she’s the only artist this critic has felt comfortable comparing favourably to Joni Mitchell in the scope of her talent EVER.” – Barry Hammond, Penguin Eggs Magazine

Dana Wylie is a singer of rare gift and a dedicated crafter of deeply felt and sharply observed songs. Praised for being as dexterous with words as she is with her guitar, piano and remarkably powerful voice, she writes with equal parts craft and passion; as Roger Levesque of the Edmonton Journal put it, "Wylie shows the intuitive grace, smart, lyrical economy, and the ability to find insights in everything or anything that you expect of a mature songwriter.”

Cutting short a promising career in the Canadian theatre scene at the age of 23, Dana decided musicians were her tribe. She moved to the unlikely locale of Taiwan, where she cut her teeth playing with jug bands, blues bands, bluegrass bands and cover bands, singing jazz in hotel lounges, and doing some of the most bizarre corporate gigs you could possibly imagine. Moving to the UK in 2005, she formed her own band and toured steadfastly for five years, releasing three critically-praised albums in the process. She then landed back in Canada in 2010 to pursue graduate studies in musicology at the University of Alberta. Having developed a profound affinity for traditional folk music in the UK, Dana immersed herself in the Folkways Records collection, which was gifted to the university by Moses Asch in 1985. She served as programming/community outreach co-ordinator for folkwaysAlive! in 2016/17, and continues to programme and host its annual Women of Folkways concert.

Dana released her fifth record, The Earth That You’re Made Of, in October 2017. After fifteen-odd years of eclectic and wandering musical adventures, she has crafted a group of songs rich with the grounded but revelatory wisdom of the pilgrim who has finally found her way home; journalist, broadcaster, and festival director Peter North described the album as “one of the finest contemporary roots recordings to have ever been produced in Alberta, period.”

"Subtle and lulling, her voice is the sound you’d hear in a forest haunted by benevolent ghosts." – Michael Dunn, BeatRoute Magazine




Northwest Trail
The Northwest Trail is a project of Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous, presenting Canadian and international artists to audiences in Northern British, Northwestern Alberta and throughout Canada. Home Routes’ programming emphasizes artistic excellence, and diverse and entertaining performances that leave audiences breathless and wanting more.

About House Concerts:
House concerts have a triple function: they support artists’ ability to make a living, they make music accessible on a grassroots level to all corners of Canada, and they connect people -- a social engine that builds community.  

Home Routes/ Chemin Chez Nous thanks our funders and partners for their support. This project is made possible in part by the Manitoba Arts Council, FACTOR, SOCAN Foundation, and The Canada Council for the Arts.


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Home Routes/Chemin Chez Nous was incorporated as a not-for-profit arts organization in February of 2007 to create new performance opportunities for French and English speaking musicians and audiences in rural, remote and urban, communities across Canada, hosted by volunteers in their homes and other community venues. Follow Home Routes on twitter @homeroutes or “like” on facebook.

Dana Wylie Links:
Website: https://danawylie.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dana.wylie.3
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDYfbqc1TOAYfd_WE4cEZQ
Northwest Trail Schedule: https://homeroutes.ca/attend/the-routes/
Home Routes Full Schedule:
https://homeroutes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Open-Interactive-Schedule.pdf